Romance
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 1, 2005
Closed May 1, 2005
Opened Mar 1, 2005
Closed May 1, 2005
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Running Time:
2hr. 0min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 0min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Atlantic Theater Company co-founder David Mamet returns to the Atlantic stage with the World Premiere of a new comedy set in a modern day courtroom. Romance covers issues ranging from our current legal system, infidelity, the Middle East and world peace. Artistic director Neil Pepe, who most recently staged Atlantic's productions of Jez Butterworth's The Night Heron and Howard Korder's Sea of Tranquility directs.
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Perhaps when David Mamet was young, he got a huge jolt from Laugh-In's "Here Come de Judge" sketches, wherein Sammy Davis Jr. shuffled around in black robes promoting disorder in the court. Or maybe Mamet never tuned in to George Schlatter's weekly laff riot but, ever since his Chicago-suburb childhood, has harbored a love for vaudeville and burlesque baggy-pants shenanigans. It really doesn't matter what were the models (if any) for the ever-busy Mamet's Romance; what matters is that this absurdist courtroom play will keep audiences giggling for years.
To describe what goes during the fast-paced two acts is beside the point, if Mamet even has a point here. Nonetheless, here goes: An uptig[...]